John hyde



(No Model.)

J. HYDE.

GAME OFIDRAUGHTSTO BB PLAYED BY/THREE PERSONS AND APPARATUS THEREFOR.

No. 378,931. A PatentedxMajr. 6, 1888.

ivliy! UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

JOHN HYDE, OF ACTON, NEAR LONDON, COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, ENG- LAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE HENRY HOWARD, OF

NIAGARA FALLS, CANADA.

GAME OF DRAUGHTS TO BE PLAYED BY THREE PERSONS, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,931, dated March 6, 1888.

' Application filed February 24, 1887. Serial No. 228,725. (No model.) Patented in England'January 30, 1886, No. 1,346.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN HYDE, a citizen of Great Britain, residing at Acton,- near London, in the county of Middlesex and Kingdom of Great Britain, have invented a certain new and useful Gameof Draughts to be Played by Three Persons, and Apparatus Therefor; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference'beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters. and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a new and interesting game of draughts, so that three persons can play it; and the invention will be understood by reference to the following description and claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the board on which the game is played; Fig. 2, the same, having the men, pieces, or checkers thereon in position ready to play. Fig. 3 is the board made in the shape of a star, and so as to be folded, as indicated by the dotted lines, and shown folded in Fig. 4.

This board can be made in any convenient shape subject .to the triangular portion on which the game is played, and which is divided into eighty one equilateral triangles, forty-five colored alike, and thirty-six white, as indicated in the first three figures of the drawings.

In playing the game thirty men or pieces are used (see Fig. 2) in three different colors of ten each. They are preferably circular in form, similar to ordinary checkers.

Fig. 2 shows the pieces in position on the board ready for play.

The game is played as follows: Each player has ten pieces, distinctive in color or style, which are placed in each corner on the colored triangular spaces. In the first game lots are drawn for the first move, and in subsequent games the first move is taken by each player in rotation, the-second pl aycr in the first game guide the base of the triangular board farthest from the corner from which he is played? So soon as either of the players succeeds in advancing any of his men to any triangle in the last line or base of the board farthest from his own corner, excepting those triangles forming the angles of the board, the men so advanced become kings. After a piece has been crowned it must not at any time be moved in either direction along the outer lines of the triangle, but when first moved must be played out from the line in which it was crowned, when it may be moved and may take any and every other direction. It may, however, at

any time thereafter be moved back to any of 7c the outer lines, but must be brought out again when next played. The mode of taking both pieces and kings is similar to that adopted in the ordinary game of draughts, and, if the positions allow, more than one man or king may be taken from either or both adversaries at the same time. Should the player whose turn it is to move be able to take from one of his adversaries, such adversary may compel him to do so; but should the player be in a position to take from either one or the other, he has the option of takingfrom whom he chooses. If one player does not compel another to take when opportunity offers, the one failing to take may be buffed, as in the ordinary game of draughts. After one player has lost all his pieces, the player succeeding in taking the last piece of his remaining adversary wins the game. It may, however, happen that the two remaining players have each only a king, when, unless one player is in a position to force the other to the side of the board, where he cannot move without being taken, the game is considered drawn. Should each of the three players be left with one king without any apcounters with which the said game is to be to parent superiority of position, it may also be played, as herein specified.

agreed that the game be drawn. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in What I claim is presence of two witnesses. The triangular board on which the within- JOHN HYDE. described game is to be played, divided into XVitnesses: eighty-one equilateral triangles forty-five of I V. HOWARD,

one color, and thirty-six white, (or of another J. GROOM,

color,) and with the thirty pieces, men, or I Both of Euszon Stat ion. 

